Women Mobilizing Memory

Ayşe Gül Altınay is professor of cultural anthropology and director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence at Sabancı University.María José Contreras is a performance artist and associate professor at the Faculty of the Arts of the Universidad Católica de Chile.Marianne Hirsch is professor of English, comparative literature, and gender studies at Columbia University.Jean Howard is professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.Banu Karaca is assistant professor of anthropology and a Mercator-IPC Fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center.Alisa Solomon is professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the MA Arts and Culture concentration.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Practicing Feminism, Practicing Memory, by Marianne HirschPart I. Disrupting Sites1. Stadium Memories: The Estadio Nacional de Chile and the Reshaping of Space through Women’s Memory, by Katherine Hite and Marita Sturken2. The Metamorphosis of the Museal: From Exhibitionary to Experiential Complex and Beyond, by Andreas Huyssen3. Kara Walker: The Memory of Sugar, by Carol Becker4. Curious Steps: Mobilizing Memory Through Collective Walking and Storytelling in Istanbul, by Bürge Abiral, Ayşe Gül Altınay, Dilara Çalışkan,and Armanc Yıldız5. Pilgrimage As/Or Resistance, by Nancy KricorianPart II. Performing Protest6. Traumatic Memes, by Diana Taylor7. Memory as Encounter: The Saturday Mothers in Turkey, by Meltem Ahıska8. Aquí: Performing Mapping Practices in Santiago de Chile, by María José Contreras Lorenzini9. #NiUnaMenos (#NotOneWomanLess): Hashtag Performativity, Memory, and Direct Action against Gender Violence in Argentina, by Marcela A. Fuentes10. Mobilizing Academic Labor: The Graduate Workers of Columbia Unionization Campaign, by Andrea Crow and Alyssa Greene 11. “Nobody Is Going To Let You Attend Your Own Funeral”: A Funeral for a Trans Woman and Naming the Unnamed, by Dilara Çalışkan 12. Black Feminist Visions and the Politics of Healing in the Movement for Black Lives, by Deva WoodlyPart III. Interfering Images13. Instilling Interference: Lorie Novak’s Frequencies in Traumatic Time, by Laura Wexler14. Siting Absence: Feminist Photography, State Violence, and the Limits of Representation. by Nicole Gervasio15. Carrie Mae Weems: Rehistoricizing Visual Memory, by Deborah Willis16. “When Everything Has Been Said Before . . .”: Art, Dispossession, and the Economies of Forgetting in Turkey, by Banu Karaca17. Treasures, by Silvina Der-Meguerditchian and Marianne Hirsch18. Blank: An Attempt at a Conversation, by Susan Meiselas and Işın ÖnolPart IV. Staging Resistance19. Interventionist Theater: Challenging Regimes of Slow Violence, by Jean E. Howard20. Making Memory: Patricia Ariza’s and Teresa Ralli’s Antígonas, by Leticia Robles-Moreno21. Theater of the Mothers: Three Political Plays by Marie NDiaye, by Noémie Ndiaye22. Who Knows Where or When?: AIDS and Theatrical Memory in Queer Time, by Alisa SolomonPart V. Rewriting Lives23. El Edificio de los Chilenos (The Building of the Chileans): Heroic Memory Revisited by a Post-Revolutionary Daughter, by Milena Grass Kleiner24. Remembering “Possibility”: Postmemory and Apocalyptic Hope in Recent Turkish Coup Narratives, by Sibel Irzık25. Müfide Ferit Tek’s Aydemir Meets Neşide K. Demir, or How Women in Mourning Impede Gendered Memories of a Genocidal Past, by Hülya Adak26. Hilando en la Memoria: Weaving Songs of Resistance in Contemporary Mapuche Political Cultural Activism, by María Soledad Falabella LucoList of ContributorsIndex

This volume confirms a shift of paradigm in the field of memory studies, linking it now to the mobilizing force of historical imagination. Without minimizing the devastating effects of violence and destruction, these authors demonstrate that the past is an archive of unlived possibilities and unpursued futures. Time shifts as one reads each of these pieces, grounded in an uncertain aftermath of dictatorship and war, or continuing colonization. They tell histories that release ways of imagining what could have been and even what should have been, experimenting with tense to open political pathways and affirmative politics from the sustained and discerning reflection on abysmal loss. Opposed to revisionism, these authors probe more deeply into the past than positivist histories have ever done, following the flash of possibility into the future. A brilliant, timely, and singular volume.